Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I noticed that on the top of the
2 right up the stairs , the passage and er I noticed that on the stairs not too bad you know , that hardly gets used , er
3 I knew that on the whole the U-boat commanders had fought the submarine war cleanly , the only major exception being the murders committed by the U.852 and her captain , Lieutenant-Commander Eck .
4 I knew that on the island one was driven back into the past .
5 I saw that on the well proposed
6 He joined the Gwili Railway shortly after I did and on the very same day as my cousin Paul Lucas , but since then Roger has contributed more to the railway than either of us .
7 Earlier I said that on the whole our food was not bad : salads , fruits and nuts were plentiful but I had taken on my parent 's tastes .
8 To exclude any chance of natural pregnancy , I ensured that on the day of fecundation , all males in the proximity , including her 99-year-old husband ( Abraham X ) , were circumcised .
9 as well , had a little do with a little boy called Shane , he decided he wanted to come into the story with a , in his blue car , I explained that on the day of the choose he could either come in and have a story or he was to play with the blue car outside , well he had a fit , he 's rattling the door , anyway , I did n't realize there was this childminder that he had with him not er his mum , cos she came and had her sort of say and things
10 She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all …
11 She said that on the morning of September 18 her husband got up about 6.30am .
12 And all that is is a hammer and stamp and er and they have a habit of buckling because we regularly , erm postcode cycles erm , with the introduction of the mountain bike we found that on the weaker frames we were buckling them .
13 We estimated that on an average working day about 650,000 people saw their family doctor and another 300,000 went to the dentist .
14 So let's just er to put it in context again , we saw that on the day of the ascension Jesus instructed his friends to go on proclaiming the good news throughout the world to help others become disciples , and bring to them , and bring them to membership of the church through baptism .
15 They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books .
16 However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed .
17 But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws .
18 When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there .
19 Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches .
20 Coming into Brindisi Harbour , he noticed that on the roof of a high rise block of flats under the wing float , lay a lovely Latin sunbathing .
21 He replied that on the facts as stated it did not appear , at least so far as the testator 's words were concerned , that it was entrusted to Pamphilus that he should make over a hundred .
22 He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt .
23 He replied that on the facts as stated the testator had validly confirmed his wishes by a trust , and had therefore given the same to each so that the nurses should enjoy the income from the land together with the foster-child .
24 Disliking the Tories more than he disliked Labour , he declared that on the defeat of Baldwin 's Government in the new Parliament , the King should ask MacDonald to form an administration , which he and his fellow Liberals would keep in office as long as it avoided extremist policies .
25 A further cause for concern was Recommendation 6 , with its proposal to base grant for the coming year to each Responsible Body not only on the standards of its own work but also on the needs of the area it served and on the provision made by others .
26 He decided that on the way he would take a look at the nearby clump of trees from which the eerie sounds had drifted during the night .
27 The judge can not be faulted either on the course he took or on the decision he reached on the material before him .
28 The head said he thought that on the whole it was a very fair report — he had not expected it to be without criticisms .
29 He felt that on the final day of their three-day visit the inspectors went through the files with the respective partners too quickly .
30 He said that on the issue of whether parents in such circumstances could claim damages , he had reached a different conclusion from Lord Prosser .
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